Christabel Devado
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christabel Devado |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Devado |
| SIGNATURE | DEVADO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6095-6675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bridging Critical Geographic Scholarship and Educational Infrastructure
This article examines how storytelling platforms like ArcGIS StoryMaps can integrate critical geographic scholarship into public and introductory geographic educational outlets. We position storytelling platforms as a mechanism for increased collaboration, faster integration of critical scholarship, and reaching broader audiences for geographic knowledge production and circulation. We argue that there is a disconnect between critical geographic r…
Landscape Photography, National Parks, and Settler Colonial Nationalism
Intimate Geopolitics and "Rural as White" Narratives in the Rural Rust Belt
This paper uses intimate geopolitics to disrupt the focus of ‘rural as white’ narratives in rural geographies. ‘Rural as white’ narratives have evolved from settler colonialism, systemic racism, Orientalism, and institutionalised genocide and enslavement that shape and uphold geopolitical positions of the United States. Meanwhile, intimate geopolitics, particularly Pain’s (2021) concept of geotrauma, has served as a lens to view the local impacts…
From Jamestown to Bethlehem
In this visual intervention, I demonstrate connections between Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and rural Jamestown, Pennsylvania, USA, through 14 photos of surrounding landscapes. This intervention demonstrates how local geopolitical landscapes between two settler colonial nations perpetuate violence in the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), specifically through photos of “less-lethal munitions” in the West Bank and the site near…
People expect you to choose”
Hybridity in geography, specifically hybridity through a postcolonial lens, is often removed from postcolonial origins regarding geographic scale. I argue that postcolonial hybridity is key to situating geographic scalar identity within the context of postcolonial diasporas navigating competing ideas of nationalism and regionalism. Postcolonial hybridity as opposed to hybridity as hyphenated identity, provides a historically contingent lens usefu…
Examining Rust Belt narratives
Monolith, the colonial face of landscape photography
The goal of this paper is to highlight gendered, racial, and colonial politics of landscape photography by examining intersections of patriarchy, Orientalism/colonialism, and representation in its history and current practice. Landscape photography appears on or in screensaver backgrounds, TV commercials, cover art for apps or music, marketing campaigns, posters, textbooks, waiting rooms, corporate offices, hotel rooms, departmental promotional m…
"Sounding "brown
Intimacy in Non-Western Discourses of Terrorism
The role of terrorism and the War on Terror have become increasingly prominent within political climates. As research into social media and mass media has grown with the ability to leverage Internet-based resources, this article approaches the increased security climate in the United States and Islamophobia through film analysis of non-Western films. Geographies of film have been well developed within the context of geopolitics, but less so in th…
Sound and identity explored through the Indian Tamil diaspora and Tamil Nadu
Sound is very much a part of identity. While identities are neither singular nor stable, they can be expressed through sound in daily life. Scholars have used soundscapes in geography to understand urban environments within cities, rural national park systems, and provide musical insights into cultural landscapes. However, furthering discussion on the role of sound in identity can move concepts of soundscape and cultural landscape forward. The go…
Administrative violence, prison geographies and the photographs of Tuol Sleng Security Center, C ambodia
During the Cambodian genocide, between 1975 and 1979, approximately 200 security centres were established by the Khmer Rouge. One of these prisons, designated by the code‐name S ‐21, was responsible primarily for the punishment of individuals ‘guilty’ of committing state crimes. During their detainment at S ‐21 prisoners were documented, photographed, interrogated and tortured before ultimately being executed. Following the downfall of the Khmer …
"Sounding "brown
Administrative violence, prison geographies and the photographs of Tuol Sleng Security Center, C ambodia
During the Cambodian genocide, between 1975 and 1979, approximately 200 security centres were established by the Khmer Rouge. One of these prisons, designated by the code‐name S ‐21, was responsible primarily for the punishment of individuals ‘guilty’ of committing state crimes. During their detainment at S ‐21 prisoners were documented, photographed, interrogated and tortured before ultimately being executed. Following the downfall of the Khmer …
Monolith, the colonial face of landscape photography
The goal of this paper is to highlight gendered, racial, and colonial politics of landscape photography by examining intersections of patriarchy, Orientalism/colonialism, and representation in its history and current practice. Landscape photography appears on or in screensaver backgrounds, TV commercials, cover art for apps or music, marketing campaigns, posters, textbooks, waiting rooms, corporate offices, hotel rooms, departmental promotional m…
Intimate Geopolitics and "Rural as White" Narratives in the Rural Rust Belt
This paper uses intimate geopolitics to disrupt the focus of ‘rural as white’ narratives in rural geographies. ‘Rural as white’ narratives have evolved from settler colonialism, systemic racism, Orientalism, and institutionalised genocide and enslavement that shape and uphold geopolitical positions of the United States. Meanwhile, intimate geopolitics, particularly Pain’s (2021) concept of geotrauma, has served as a lens to view the local impacts…
Examining Rust Belt narratives
Intimacy in Non-Western Discourses of Terrorism
The role of terrorism and the War on Terror have become increasingly prominent within political climates. As research into social media and mass media has grown with the ability to leverage Internet-based resources, this article approaches the increased security climate in the United States and Islamophobia through film analysis of non-Western films. Geographies of film have been well developed within the context of geopolitics, but less so in th…
Sound and identity explored through the Indian Tamil diaspora and Tamil Nadu
Sound is very much a part of identity. While identities are neither singular nor stable, they can be expressed through sound in daily life. Scholars have used soundscapes in geography to understand urban environments within cities, rural national park systems, and provide musical insights into cultural landscapes. However, furthering discussion on the role of sound in identity can move concepts of soundscape and cultural landscape forward. The go…
Administrative violence, prison geographies and the photographs of Tuol Sleng Security Center, C ambodia
During the Cambodian genocide, between 1975 and 1979, approximately 200 security centres were established by the Khmer Rouge. One of these prisons, designated by the code‐name S ‐21, was responsible primarily for the punishment of individuals ‘guilty’ of committing state crimes. During their detainment at S ‐21 prisoners were documented, photographed, interrogated and tortured before ultimately being executed. Following the downfall of the Khmer …
Sound and identity explored through the Indian Tamil diaspora and Tamil Nadu
Sound is very much a part of identity. While identities are neither singular nor stable, they can be expressed through sound in daily life. Scholars have used soundscapes in geography to understand urban environments within cities, rural national park systems, and provide musical insights into cultural landscapes. However, furthering discussion on the role of sound in identity can move concepts of soundscape and cultural landscape forward. The go…
Intimacy in Non-Western Discourses of Terrorism
The role of terrorism and the War on Terror have become increasingly prominent within political climates. As research into social media and mass media has grown with the ability to leverage Internet-based resources, this article approaches the increased security climate in the United States and Islamophobia through film analysis of non-Western films. Geographies of film have been well developed within the context of geopolitics, but less so in th…
Monolith, the colonial face of landscape photography
The goal of this paper is to highlight gendered, racial, and colonial politics of landscape photography by examining intersections of patriarchy, Orientalism/colonialism, and representation in its history and current practice. Landscape photography appears on or in screensaver backgrounds, TV commercials, cover art for apps or music, marketing campaigns, posters, textbooks, waiting rooms, corporate offices, hotel rooms, departmental promotional m…
"Sounding "brown
People expect you to choose”
Hybridity in geography, specifically hybridity through a postcolonial lens, is often removed from postcolonial origins regarding geographic scale. I argue that postcolonial hybridity is key to situating geographic scalar identity within the context of postcolonial diasporas navigating competing ideas of nationalism and regionalism. Postcolonial hybridity as opposed to hybridity as hyphenated identity, provides a historically contingent lens usefu…
Examining Rust Belt narratives
From Jamestown to Bethlehem
In this visual intervention, I demonstrate connections between Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and rural Jamestown, Pennsylvania, USA, through 14 photos of surrounding landscapes. This intervention demonstrates how local geopolitical landscapes between two settler colonial nations perpetuate violence in the occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), specifically through photos of “less-lethal munitions” in the West Bank and the site near…
Landscape Photography, National Parks, and Settler Colonial Nationalism
Intimate Geopolitics and "Rural as White" Narratives in the Rural Rust Belt
This paper uses intimate geopolitics to disrupt the focus of ‘rural as white’ narratives in rural geographies. ‘Rural as white’ narratives have evolved from settler colonialism, systemic racism, Orientalism, and institutionalised genocide and enslavement that shape and uphold geopolitical positions of the United States. Meanwhile, intimate geopolitics, particularly Pain’s (2021) concept of geotrauma, has served as a lens to view the local impacts…
Bridging Critical Geographic Scholarship and Educational Infrastructure
This article examines how storytelling platforms like ArcGIS StoryMaps can integrate critical geographic scholarship into public and introductory geographic educational outlets. We position storytelling platforms as a mechanism for increased collaboration, faster integration of critical scholarship, and reaching broader audiences for geographic knowledge production and circulation. We argue that there is a disconnect between critical geographic r…
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